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The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets

Editorial: In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales

The Guardian - UK

For a proper celebration of the American Revolution, head to the British Library

Brief letters: Independence anniversary | Vertical drinking | Thomas Paine’s Thetford roots | Andy Burnham and Larry the cat | Larkin about

The Guardian - UK

Thar she blows! Hull Maritime Museum resurfaces with a walk-in whale and a ‘monkey mermaid’

The £20m reboot shows off exhibits ranging from a giant whale skeleton to tiny ‘scrimshaws’ of carved bone to a very strange mermaid, all telling a gripping tale of a great seafaring city

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The Guardian view on Andy Burnham: political poetry must become governing prose

Editorial: Larkin, Harrison and Shakespeare shaped Labour’s leader. Now comes the harder task: turning language into lasting change

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From Cambridge ‘impostor’ to New Labour star: Andy Burnham’s winding path to power

In the first of a two-part profile, Daniel Boffey traces the incoming PM’s early forays into politics and his rise to prominence – ultimately leading to him leaving London for Manchester

The Guardian - UK

Books of the Month: What to read in July, from David Sedaris to the stylish finale of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy

BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Martin Chilton picks his favourite new book releases for July

The Independent UK

A Prescient Poem About AI

A post jocularly characterizing AIs as our children reminded me of this stanza from Philip Larkin: They fuck you up,… The post A Prescient Poem About AI appeared first on Reason.com.

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Carol Rumens obituary

Poet, poetry editor and writer of the Guardian’s long-running Poem of the Week column

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University of Liverpool acquires entire archive of poet Roger McGough

Archivist Jo Klett says the 40 boxes of material will provide ‘a full picture of Roger’s entire working career’

The Guardian - UK

I didn’t know how much I needed work until I lost it. But now I’ve learned to love Mondays again

After years of scrabbling about for jobs, I’m happy I have the right work/leisure balance, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Pets & their People explores the long, strange history of human-animal companionship

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being our most common companions (assuming we don’t count fish individually). But it isn’t easy to be precise.

The Conversation

Scotland have proved everyone wrong – but Six Nations title fate rests on biggest question of all

A three-way title fight should provide a fitting finale to an unpredictable edition of this championship

The Independent UK

Poem of the week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson

Writing towards the end of the first world war, the poet, novelist, journalist and suffragist Benson here dreams of a secure peace

The Guardian - UK

Maurice Rutherford obituary

Poet who wrote with originality, warmth and mischief about his home city of Hull, after turning to writing later in life

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Who are the worst fathers in literature? Our experts make the tough call

Literature has long portrayed messed-up families. As poet Philip Larkin famously wrote, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do.”

The Conversation

Magical alchemy: Arundhati Roy’s compelling memoir illuminates a ‘restless, unruly’ life

“She was my shelter and my storm.” With these words in the opening pages of her memoir, Arundhati Roy unfurls a narrative of extraordinary filial bonds that renders trite those therapeutic memoirs of family dysfunction scattered across the publishing world.

The Guardian - UK

Aston Villa lose again: what a difference a year makes

In today’s Football Daily: Unai Emery is still winless, Oliver Glasner’s man-management skills and an apology to Qarabag

The Guardian - UK

Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream

Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions …

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I’ve never been keen on turkey. Now my aversion is approaching outright loathing

The Christmas bird has now been financially weaponised

The Guardian - UK

John Keats statue to be unveiled near his birthplace in London’s Moorgate

Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21

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Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

The Guardian - UK

‘Leaving home used to be a rite of passage’: Andrew O’Hagan on family, freedom and a generational divide

The Scottish novelist moved out as early as he could. His son says he might never leave. Do young people still want to flee the nest, he asks, and what happens when a population comes to maturity feeling ‘made’ by their parents?

Evening Standard

OPINION - Is it morally wrong to go and see the Michael Jackson musical? I think so

I still love Philip Larkin, have no qualms over David Bowie and enjoy the music of Kanye West. I don’t like cancel culture and understand the need to separate the art from the artist. So why do I feel so uncomfortable at the thought of the biggest opening in the…

The Guardian - UK

How long should it take to answer a Whatsapp? About a fortnight

Real friends don’t expect instant feedback. They know you’re busy slicing potatoes or loading the washing machine, writes Nell Frizzell

The Guardian - UK

Alan Brownjohn obituary

Prolific poet, novelist and critic who was an astute and sometimes satirical observer of life in modern Britain

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